Julia Glass Quotes

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

Julia Glass

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The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around the globe.

Joe Lonsdale

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I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.

Jerry Harrison

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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Maya Angelou

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I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Amy Smart

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Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

Sinead O'Connor

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A man can add to his sexuality by being funny, whereas a woman can diminish hers. I don't know why that's the case: it's completely unfair.

Ronnie Corbett

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I was definitely a handful back then. I could not sit down long enough to study.

Michelle Carter

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Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

Mitch Hedberg

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There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others.

Lizzy Caplan

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I saw 'Get On Up' about a dozen times. I went every day. Every single day, I was standing outside when the movie theatre opened and bought my ticket. The theatre was usually empty. I live in a town that wasn't eager or very interested in a James Brown biopic, but I couldn't stop watching Boseman.

Christopher Priest

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When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.

Cory Michael Smith

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Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

Allu Arjun

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